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by kortilla
970 days ago
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The system is completely broken with you taking 12 years to train. It means that: - you are expected to learn way too much and only have a surface understanding of a lot of things (see tick example from sibling comment) - your time is very valuable so you can’t put any time effort into patients at all to try to deeply understand anything that doesn’t pass your “known expertise” classifier. My son has back pain that most closely matches descriptions of sciatica. The 3 MDs he has been given a cumulative exposure time of maybe 15 minutes to have resulted in prescriptions for various muscle relaxers and steroids based on a single xray. No attempt to look at any soft tissues and none of it has helped. The industry is an absolute dumpster fire of ineffective care unless you land in the top 20 issues for each sub category. No offense, but the job of diagnosing one of the thousands of possible issues should not be yours. This is what computers are ripe to disrupt. ChatGPT isn’t there yet but something like it that can just crunch data and known results for every obscure thing is going to blow you out of the water. We can both only hope… |
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I’ve had positive test showing nerve damage. Doctor messages me saying all my tests were fine. I message them in the portal pointing out one of tests showing insufficient sweating means small fiber neuropathy. They confirm I am correct. Then, I have to tell them what meds to prescribe, that the dosage is too small. It was like pulling nails.
I have seen physicians at top facilities in the US. Some are better some are there for prestige and paycheck.
We need to collect symptoms using words and visual representation, not everyone will know what tingling feels like. I welcome AI.
Also, if you search an illness and look for support groups you will quickly find handful of “recommended” physicians in a country.